Everything's Coming Up Roses

I want you to look at the picture below and tell me if you like the product.




















Now look at this picture. Can you tell me what the rose is made of?





















Now look at these earrings. Do you like them?





















What are they made of?





















The petals of the flowers are made from recycled items. Do you know what?

Answer below...






If you said an old t-shirt for the rose pin, you are right! If you said gum wrappers for the second, I'm impressed. Very impressed. Leave me a post telling me how smart you are!

Thinking Outside the Box Using the Box

I have never felt so good in my brain. I have so many ideas for the different items that I am waiting to recycle/upcycle.

It feels wild because just a few days ago I was totally blocked and not having anything fresh coming into my head. I guess the constipation has passed.

After cleaning the house yesterday, I wandered around looking at all of the items waiting for a new life. And then I started thinking.

And thinking.

And thinking.

And then yesterday, I made a list of all the ideas that I had to create here in the near future. Twenty-six items.

And then today I added fourteen more. Holy cow. Does anybody really expect me to blog until I have this list finished? Do you? Do you?

Here goes nothing...

Busyness Cards

Today I made some little busyness cards. I made them out of things I had around the house... I reused some paper that had gone through the printer and came out with only a page number and some tags that I rescued from from a friend's "trash" -- she had decided to go with white tags and didn't need these.

So I printed my logo and info and came up with a new line that I LOVE: "Saving the world, one art project at a time."

I can't think of a more relevant sentence to describe my busyness.

And then I sent the pieces through my stickermaker, adhered them, and voila! Busyness cards.